Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-08
INGALLS, AND THE ENGLISH.

INGALLS, AND THE ENGLISH.
| To the Editor Of the Daily Eagle
| wish to say few words with reference
to the sublime speech of our senior senate
on the fishery question which has beef
commented upon as well by you as goot
many other leading papers through tn
country.
When Mr.. ingalls, scored the Englisl
government in his speech and mentioned
their many evil and cowardly doings t.
certain weak and small nations, he omitted
one, and this one Of which have the hon
or to be devoted son, the kin gdom O.
| Denmark. This country has, in this cen
fury, been three times so outrageous,
treated by the English government that l
thought that q slight reference to sucl
treatment at this time might not be out Of
place.
In 1901, April Cd, the English navy ar
rived at the capital Of Denmark, Copenha
gen, and, although Denmark at that time
tried to keep neutral and out of the great
conflict raging among the powers Of Europe
her capital was bombarded, one third of il
burned down and thousand defenceless cit
liens, women and children slaughtered BIZ
British cannons, for the sole purpose OF
making Denmark declare in favor of an
alliance with England and against France
Again in 1907 another English escadre
commanded by Admiral Gambler
arrived before Copenhagen, Denmark,
was at the time at peace with the world
Its navy laid up in the yards at Copenha-
gen. its small army stationed on the border of
Holstein, and England then and there de-
handing that the Danish navy, consisting
of some two hundred war vessels be de-
livered up to her ''to keep France from
taking them" This being refused another
bombardment followed with as horrid re-
suits as in 1901, after which Lord Gambler
took by force every ship, boat, anchor,
sail and rope in the yards and storehouses,
and the rut1ians have, up to date, failed to
return single spar of the plumber, but are
today sailing in their grand glorious navy
several of these ships stolen from a poor
defenseless neighbor.
Lastly in 1864, when Prussia and Aus
tria combined threatened to take by force
of arms the three provinces, Schleswig,
Holster and Lanenburg, which for centu-
rics had belonged to the Danish crown, al
though several times contested for and the
Danish government called on England,
(who together with France had, as
guarantees, signed the peace protocol of
1856. guaranteeing the possession Of these
provinces to Denmark forever against for
eign invasion) for assistance to repel the
threatened invasion, did this glorious Ma
ton of hypocrites, towards and liars, with
its wonted bragadocio reply: "Our navy
will be in your waters within 4S hours,
take up the gauntlet" while as fact not
a ship was sent, not an arm was raised in
the defence of the cause she had solemnly
sworn to uphold; and the Danish army,
the flower Of the land, fought the forlorn
hope alone, and was finally, after terrible
struggle of eight. months, forced to sur
render after having lost about seventy-iiv
per cent of its members in killed and
wounded, and the three provinces, about
Of the kingdom, were given up
to the enemy England entered slight
protest-that was all. The division of the
plumber caused the war between Prussia
and Austria in 1856. when Prussia in
three weeks conquered Austria and took
the whole cake herself
This last perfidious act Of England was
much more condemned by European PEG
pie than her former sneaking thievries
Only couple of months before this war
Denmark had given to England, or rather
to her beloved % son, the prince of Wales,
Denmark's fayorite daughter Alexander,
and the people of the two countries agreed
to bury all old animosities and be friends
in need and indeed. France was ready and
willing to do her Share and urged England
on to do her duty, all of which was clearly
proven by correspondence divulged after
wards; but no, rather than prevent by small
effort an outrage like the one perpetrated,
with all its loSs Of life, treasure and subse-
gent heart bleeding, this hypocritical non
strosity perferred to sit motionless and
looking exceedingly wise and sympathetic,
while poor Denmark was writing in the
agonies of death.
And therefore I. on account and in be
half of all Danes. living or dead, desire to
second the molten" of the grandest Kan
san of them all, and am ready as an Amer
lean citizen to stand by and follow any
leader who will strike blow at the great
est fraud and humbug Of nation that sun
ever shown on. Yours respectfully,
\ DANF.